Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilisation. Today's converging energy, environmental, economic and political stresses could cause a breakdown of national and global order. Yet, perhaps breakdown can create opportunities for the bold reform of our society and open up a way for the renewa[...]

Argues that the environmental scarcities will have profound social consequences - contributing to insurrections, ethnic clashes, urban unrest, and other forms of civil violence. This book develops a model of the sources of environmental scarcity. It shows that scarcities stem from the degradation an[...]